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Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., is the Archbishop of Chicago. A member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, His Eminence has served as a seminary, college and university professor, and as Vicar General of the Oblates in Rome. Before being appointed Archbishop of Chicago in 1996, Cardinal George served as Bishop of Yakima and Archbishop of Portland. |
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Rev. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R., is one of the founding members of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal and a great friend of the IRL. A trained psychologist and counselor, Father Benedict is also a noted author, speaker and retreat master. He has written several books on spirituality and pastoral counseling, and has hosted many television programs for EWTN. |
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Rev. Brian Mullady, O.P., is a mission and retreat preacher from the Western Dominican Province. An adjunct
professor at Holy Apostles College and Seminary, Father also teaches at the Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College in the Vita Consecrata Institute. He serves as the IRL’s theological consultant. |
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Jerome Coniker is the President of the APOSTOLATE FOR FAMILY CONSECRATION. Founded in 1977 by Jerry and his late wife Gwen, the AFC is an international association of Christ’s faithful committed to “helping families get to Heaen,” by renewing Catholic family life and parish life through various catechetical and evangelical programs. |
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Timothy Drake is an award-winning journalist and the author of the book, Young and Catholic: The Face of Tomorrow’s Church. Tim has published articles in the National
Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, Faith and Family Magazine, Catholic World Report and Columbia Magazine. He is married with five children. |
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Most Rev. Robert Morlino is the Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin. Originally from Scranton, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1974 for the Society of Jesus. He later incardinated into the Diocese of Kalamazoo and earned a Doctorate in Moral Theology from the Gregorian. Bishop Morlino served as Ordinary of Helena from 1999-2003 until being appointed Bishop of Madison. |
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Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., was born in Winnipeg, Canada. He met Bl. Mother Teresa in 1977 and was associated
with her until her death in 1997. He joined the Missionaries of Charity Fathers at the time of their foundation
in 1984. Father Brian is postulator of the Cause of Canonization of Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta and director of the Mother Teresa Center in Mexico. |
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Msgr. Charles Mangan is a priest of the Diocese of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A prolific writer, he currently works in Rome as a member of the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. He has a S.T.L. in Canon Law and is now finishing work on a doctorate in Mariology. |
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John Woodward is the Executive Director of Serra International. Serra members pray and work to foster and promote vocations to the ministerial priesthood and consecrated life in over 41 countries. Originally from Australia, John and his wife have four children, one of whom is a priest with the Legionaries of Christ. |
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Ann Carey is a renown Catholic journalist and the author of Sisters in Crisis: The Tragic Unraveling of Women’s Religious
Communities, the ground-breaking work revealing the political and cultural changes of the 1960s and 1970s. Ann and her husband have three children and reside in South Bend, Indiana. |
